Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic
schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits
...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Charlotte Lennox
Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor
, and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates
. While pregnant with her son Edward she...
Violence
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
The family home of Lady Nithsdale
, Terregles Castle near Dumfries, was broken into by an armed mob a hundred strong, led by Presbyterian ministers, looking for illicit Catholic priests or Jesuits
.
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